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20 April 2010
"Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-- Lord Acton
[John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton]
(1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham1) DU Ante Up or Down the Slippery Slope- - Depleted uranium is destroying life
- - PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
2) War Is Killing US – Banks, Robbing US Blind- - Moyers on the Costs of War
- - Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak
3) Critical Breaking News "No man's life, liberty, or property are
safe while the congress is in session."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)Editor’s Notes:
Where do I begin around Earth Day, 2010, with melting glaciers over erupting volcanoes, deception-based wars, poisoned radioactive dust in the air, pseudo science good for cover-up, and plutocracy jamming distractions deep into our skulls? I keep coming back to noticing the futility of war, fear’s derangement that occupies too much time and space. It is a sham. And heroes like Luke Rudkowski and WeAreChange are breaking down the mind barrier of controlled communication.
In item one Jerry Mazza and Bob Nichols write about the current Depleted Uranium situation. Please use a part of your Earth Day to share this information. Also, this week, DemocracyNow is covering a Peoples' Summit on Climate Change. Perhaps timed with the uncertainty of some much colder years ahead from the Icelandic Volcano, FN has changed its title from 'Evidence of Extreme Global Warming' to "Energy Emissions Impact On Our Environment."
Item 2 updates a bit on the current financial crises, and actions that everyone knows regarding a criminal investigation into Goldman Sachs, but, in item 3, check-in on news "too big to report" by most of the mainstream media, like a $3.87 trillion lawsuit against the S.E.C."The individual is the true reality of life.
A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State,
nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,'
which is only a collection of individuals."
-- Emma Goldman
(1869-1940) Source: The Place of the Individual in Society
1) DU Ante Up or Down the Slippery Slope- - Depleted uranium is destroying life
- - PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
Depleted uranium is destroying life
By Jerry MazzaPublished by FlybyNews.com - April 16, 2010
I have long heard sound-bites or seen passages about depleted uranium that sounded more than dire. But given my own cognitive dissonance, and the fact that I was writing about many other dire topics at the time, I filed depleted uranium in my cranium for future investigation, which, given the human aversion to bad news, could have been never.
But never was over in an exchange of emails about nuclear missiles in Israel's arsenal. I received some startling nuclear information from San Francisco Bay View writer, Bob Nichols. It was an illumination long-time coming.
I started at the end of Bob's article to find out who he was. His credits read "Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winning writer and a San Francisco Bay View correspondent. A former bomb maker in a U.S. government factory in rural Oklahoma, he reports on the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. He can be reached at duweapons@gmail.com ” His credentials were impressive and so was the article he sent,
PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war.
In several, follow-up phone calls, Bob, in his gentle, mid-western drawl, filled me in on the picture of the imposing disasters caused by depleted uranium in Central Asia and in the Mid-East, in which hundreds of thousands of tons of depleted uranium had been dropped in the past 20 years.
Bob pointed out that San Francisco itself was receiving fallout from the Berkeley National [Nuclear Weapons] Lab, and from the Livermore Laboratory in the South Bay area, managed by San Francisco-based Bechtel, a nuclear-capable corporation, boosted by San Francisco's "Nuclear Nancy’ Pelosi and her friends at Bechtel" as Bob commented. The University of California at Berkeley now earns more from weapons than from students.
The San Francisco facilities have been part of the Manhattan Project, operating from pre-1945, contributing a dangerous amount of radiation to the area with weapons testing and leakages of material into the Bay. It was for this reason, Nichols told me, that he still lives in Oklahoma, though he has a real love affair with San Francisco. Yet he fears for its human and natural safety due to poisoning by the nuclear projects.
In fact, he bemoaned the occasion of "Fleet Week," "the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week - an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the US Navy and marines – who will probably come in deadly contact with another Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and aerosols, UO."
As he wrote, "Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as depleted uranium.
"When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself."
That was shocking to hear. So I did a bit of research to corroborate Bob's claims and came upon a number of YouTube pieces, one particularly powerful ten-minute piece called
Depleted Uranium - The Ultimate Dirty Bomb.
It features Dr. Doug Rokke, US Army Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer, as well as the internationally known Geological Scientist and International Radiation Expert Leuren Moret. Please take ten minutes to listen to it.
Dr. Rokke explains that as far back as 1973 [the Yom Kippur War], radioactive materials carpeted Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He mentions too that DU radioactive contamination makes food and water unusable. He explains how the huge jolts of electrical energy in a small amount of depleted uranium can destroy human cells.
Most notably, Dr. Rooke estimates that from October/November 1991 in Gulf War 1, 160,000 US soldiers were permanently disabled by US use of some 340 tons of depleted uranium. Ten years later that number had climbed to 221,000 and left 10,000 dead. Dr. Rooke, a victim himself of the lack of proper post-battle examinations for DU poisoning, spoke with a tempered but deliberate anger and frustration at the damage done to all, including civilian populations, combatants, and himself.
Lauren Moret pointed out that as far back as 1943 depleted uranium usage, aka "poison gas warfare" was encouraged in a government memo shown on screen. She also tells us that the UN Human Rights Commission declared depleted uranium as illegal. The ultimate irony she points out is that in 2003 we attacked Iraq and Saddam Hussein for possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, which turned out not to be true. Yet when we attacked Iraq in 2003, we dropped between 1000 to 2000 tons of depleted uranium, a known Weapon of Mass Nuclear Destruction in a three-week period. This is a war crime unto itself.
This all jibed with Bob Nichol's writings, especially the fact that the damage of depleted uranium is forever, lasting billions of years in the atmosphere, the earth and water, as it lasts on clothing, the skin, the human body, destroying vital organs, causing birth defects of all kinds, cancers, infertility, damage to the bones, brains, testicles and ovaries, which applies to civilians and animals as well.
As Nichols writes, "Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in US war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president."
"Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the US Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people." Remember that US forces themselves are the victims as well of these weapons, the worst imaginable blowback.
In fact, Nichols points us towards a "Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. This country is Israel."
Bob sent along an article from the noted Israeli paper, Haaretz, dated 3/21/2010:
Study: Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in past decade. Bob claimed the number was fudged somewhat because from 2004-2008 there was a 10 million sperm a year drop-off. Taken to 2015, all of the nation would be infertile. The motility of the tested sperm also indicated a drop-off. These samples were taken from healthy young people who do not smoke.
"In Israel, too, [Haaretz writes] a study was published about a year ago, showing an increase of about 30 percent in defects in the male reproductive system. In addition, in the past decade, the number of cases of testicular cancer has doubled."
Haaretz goes on to attribute the sperm drop to "chemicals in the ground and in drinking water...as impacting hormone levels and secondary sexual characteristics." The paragraph concludes with "Studies published in Britain have highlighted a clear connection between continual decline in sperm counts and chemicals in the environment."
In the next to last paragraph of Bob Nichols' article, he writes of the Israeli situation, "Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset… Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive US presidents."
The 800-pound gorilla in the room here is that young people tested (both men and women) are performing in the Israeli Defense Forces, and face massive amounts of depleted uranium in the US manufactured weaponry being used in the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. The land, animals, and those involved in the conflict on both sides must be, by definition, poisoned by these toxic weapons of nuclear destruction. That's the real story. The Israelis have performed a service in a way just by conducting a bona fide scientific analysis of the situation.
In nearby Iraq, three-headed babies are turning up and a virtual Pandora’s Box of birth defects that you can see here. Caution:
these are not pretty pictures, but they are true pictures of what the future could be as the present.
Again, please read the entire Haaretz article and view the YouTube piece. Or check the more conservative Wikipedia for the 38-page article (which includes 13 pages of footnotes) linked here on
Depleted Uranium. You can verify the information presented above and find more information as well. In fact, the first DU, which uses radioactive isotope-238 was "manufactured in the 1940's when the US and USSR began their nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs." P.S. Depleted uranium bombs were also used on Serbia in the Bosnian War by President Clinton.
The total world inventory of depleted uranium stands at 1,188,273 tonnes as of 2002. That is enough to wipe out life on the planet for billions of years.
The United States leads the pack with 480,000 tonnes; Russia closely follow with 460,000 million tonnes; France, 190,000 tonnes; United Kingdom, 30,000 tonnes, etcetera.
As to the Legal Status of DU, Wiki reports, "In 1996 the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the '
legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons'.
[29] This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that
international law on poisonous weapons--the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899, Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925--did not cover nuclear weapons, because their prime or exclusive use was not to poison or asphyxiate. This ICJ opinion was about nuclear weapons, but the sentence 'The terms have been understood, in the practice of States, in their ordinary sense as covering weapons whose prime, or even exclusive, effect is to poison or asphyxiate,' also removes depleted uranium weaponry from coverage by the same treaties as their primary use is not to poison or asphyxiate, but to destroy
material and kill soldiers through
kinetic energy."
The deadly irony here is that depleted uranium, through the use of a perverse legalese, is classified here not as the awful poison and asphyxiate it is, but as a destructor of material and killer of solders through kinetic energy. Never has there been such a torturous misuse of language. Obviously, the people at the top are not thinking clearly. But we down here, the everyday people, must think clearly and protest the use of depleted uranium in any form, as a deadly poison and as a destructor of material, soldiers, civilians, animals, soil, water and air. Otherwise, we're committing suicide, the universe's ultimate punishment for our poisoning the planet.
This includes poisoning as well in non-warfare situations like the one in Naples, Italy (home of my forefathers) where the crime organization, the Camorra, is poisoning the Mediterranean, as Bob Nichols tells me, with the continual exploding of forty foot barges of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium. These gangsters are killing the sea that feeds that nation, the sea that runs into the Red Sea, in which Israelis swim. The Med is being poisoned for profit by criminals as the bought-off police turn their heads. Evil has many heads, like the DU misconceived child itself.
But let me conclude this piece, with Bob Nichols' last line, "The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape." But I will add that there is consciousness and the actions of conscious people to stop the situation from worsening. Lets use it.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. His book “State Of Shock – Poems from 9/11 on” is available at www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
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- - PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
By Bob NicholsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Nichols
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PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
by Bob Nichols
PTSD and its effects on U.S. soldiers and their families is a ghastly story with no end. PTSD is, in large part, though, an entirely Pentagon, or American war machine, inflicted wound.
Boot camp and combat is bad enough; and such forced inhumanity as committing war crimes against civilians causes soldiers to suffer the mental trauma of PTSD. In addition, there is an unseen agent or disease vector at work here as well.
There, on the battlefield, the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week – an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the U.S. Navy and Marines – will probably come in deadly contact with another San Francisco Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and erosols, UO.
Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as
depleted uranium.
When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself.
The deadly radioactive poison was developed by the Manhattan Project in 1945 when they were making the first atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project became the Bay Areas’ two nuclear weapons labs.
San Francisco's Rep. "Nuclear Nancy" Pelosi and her friends at San Francisco-based Bechtel are all set to make more atomic bombs, too. Bechtel is a nuclear capable corporation and manages the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
Depleted uranium is called
depleted only because less than one half of 1 percent of the uranium isotope 235, the bomb making isotope, is removed when the U.S. government makes atomic bombs. The currently remaining billion and a half pounds of uranium isotopes are often given free to politically connected arms manufacturers. That radioactive uranium is then used to make bullets, shells, missiles, mines and bombs to sell to the U.S. government a second time.
San Francisco based lawyer Karen Parker is an expert in the International Law of Armed Conflict, commonly called 'war crimes' law. The law and treaties require that weapons can be 'turned off' after the battle is over.
Simple as that. Anything else is a war crime, punishable by hard labor in prison or death by hanging.
Army and civilian researchers have shown that uranium oxide (UO) poison gas particles migrate right up the olfactory nerve to the brain. This is when the uranium poison gas weapons are used by soldiers as directed by arms manufacturers and military regulations.
In addition, UO particles are small enough to go through combat uniforms and penetrate the skin of soldiers. Once inside their bodies, the poison uranium gas is drawn to their brains, bones, and testicles or ovaries. Of course, this applies to civilians and animals as well.
Over a million U.S. soldiers have been on the ground in Iraq and Central Asia. The medical disability rate is over 60 percent and 'PTSD' is a common diagnosis. Soldiers from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy report similar medical problems as well.
One milligram (mg) of uranium oxide poison gas is about the size of one of the periods at the end of these sentences. When soldiers can absorb UO through their skin, there is nothing to limit their exposure to one milligram or a thousand. That goes for civilians too.
Each tiny milligram shoots about 1,251,000 powerful radioactive bullets a day with a range of about 20 cells of the human body for thousands or even billions of years. This is according to noted mathematician and radiation expert, Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH.
She should know, Dr. Bertell serves on several Pentagon radiation committees and has for decades.
Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in U.S. war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president.
Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the U.S. Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people.
The U.S. Expeditionary Forces are quite successful in targeting and dosing these large populations. In so doing the soldiers poison themselves with depleted uranium too. The American presidents don't care. Should we care if the president doesn't?
There is a Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year-olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. The country is Israel.
All Israeli soldiers donate a sperm sample that is immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in a sperm bank at University Hospital in Jerusalem. Recent professional analysis shows Israeli sperm concentration has declined by 40 percent in less than 10 years.
This is a dangerous and precipitous collapse in human sperm concentration. While opinions differ as to the causes, Israel is swimming in a sea of uranium oxide gas partly from its own and American uranium oxide weapons. The DU attacks the sperm and eggs of male and female soldiers. Civilians and animals too.
In addition, Israel borders the Mediterranean Sea, as do 21 other countries. For 20 years, a branch of the Italian Mafia called 'Ndrangheta in the South of Italy,' next door to Sicily, have grown a thriving nuclear waste disposal business into an estimated 2007 US$65 billion a year 'legal illegal business,' as Mafia operations are called in Italy.
The infamous 'Mafia' load derelict cargo ships with high level nuclear wastes and used reactor cores, then sink them in the Mediterranean and along the African coasts. As a result, Israelis swim in a radioactive sea.
Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children soon after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset. The hearings were covered by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive U.S. presidents.
The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape.
Sources
CNN, "Who Are the 'Ndrangheta'" http://tinyurl.com/ybxfsbp
Dr. Ronit Haimov-Kokhman cited by Ofri Ilani, "Study: Quality of
Israeli sperm down 40 percent in past decade," Haaretz, 11/05/2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084574.html
Or, http://tinyurl.com/o4p87s
Google: Mafia + 'nuclear waste' + Mediterranean for an up-to-date listing of thousands of articles on this crime against humanity.
Ann Garrison, "San Francisco recruits; Blue Angels over the Bay,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtkvraLh7Lk
Central Intelligence Agency World FactBook
http://tinyurl.com/29d8r3
Caleb E. Finch, "The Biology of Human Longevity"
http://tinyurl.com/ygnkqyg
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winning writer and a San Francisco Bay View correspondent. A former bomb maker in a U.S. government factory in rural Oklahoma, he reports on the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. He can be reached at duweapons@gmail.com.
Article posted:
www.sfbayview.com/2010/ptsd-infertility-and-other-consequences-of-war/
For an important FN resource, see:
Uranium Munitions ~ harm for generations
2) War Is Killing US - Banks, Robbing US Blind- - Moyers on the Costs of War
- - Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak
- - Moyers on the Costs of WarApril 16, 2010
In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in tax dollars Binghamton citizens collectively and individually have contributed to the war effort. You can see how much your community has spent by using Costofwar.com, which keeps a running tab. And, you can see what those dollars might have paid for by using The National Priorities Project's "Trade Offs" calculator.
BILL MOYERS: That's it for the JOURNAL, except for this postscript to last week's conversation with the historian and military analyst Andrew Bacevich, who had this to say about Afghanistan:
ANDREW BACEVICH: "it is the longest war in American history. And it is a war for which there is no end in sight. And to my mind, it is a war that is utterly devoid of strategic purpose. And the fact that that gets so little attention from our political leaders, from the press or from our fellow citizens, I think is simply appalling, especially when you consider the amount of money we're spending over there and the lives that are being lost whether American or Afghan."
BILL MOYERS: Hardly had we finished talking about the rising anger over Afghan civilians killed by American and allied troops then news came of more death. American troops opened fire on a passenger bus near Kandahar. They thought the bus threatened a military convoy. At least five Afghan civilians were killed and 18 wounded. Soon a loud and angry crowd was demonstrating against the United States, followed by a suicide bombing at the Kandahar office of Afghan intelligence, killing four officials and another five civilians.
All of this as General David Petreus, commander of our forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, told a Washington audience that the continued loss of innocent civilian lives undermines everything we're trying to do in Afghanistan. And all of this as congress prepares to vote on spending another 33 billion dollars on that faraway war.
Mayor Matt Ryan Of Binghamton, New York, can't take it anymore. He calculates that by September 30th of this year the citizens of Binghamton will have paid 138 million dollars toward the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan — and more if congress passes the Obama request for supplemental funds. Binghamton is a small city of 47,000 people with an annual budget of 81 million dollars. Facing a budget deficit, the mayor has to raise taxes or cut jobs and services. He says he is sick and tired of watching people in town "squabble over crumbs" while sending all that money to foreign wars. Next week, he will become the first mayor in the country to install on city hall a large digital clock adding up minute-by-minute how much the people of Binghamton are paying for those two wars.
To watch or read the program, see:
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/profile2.html= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
- - Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James KwakPBS.org
The White House and Democrats in Congress have begun pushing in earnest for a package of financial reforms. But will it be enough to stop Wall Street from causing another meltdown?
To find out what real financial reform needs to look like, Bill Moyers turns to Simon Johnson and James Kwak, the co-authors of 13 BANKERS: THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER AND THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN.
The problem, according to Kwak, is that the legislation currently doesn't address the central problem of the crisis, that America's banks have grown 'too big to fail.' In fact, the problem has gotten worse, with just six banks holding assets in excess of 63% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. Kwak explains that the crisis actually made the surviving banks more powerful, "I think what's remarkable is that it used to be maybe eight or nine banks. But what's happened over the last two years, as Simon is saying, is that these banks have gotten bigger, because they've bought each other. They've become more powerful. And they have an even stronger market position in some key markets like credit cards, mortgages, equity underwriting, and derivatives."
Johnson argues that for reform to work, policy makers and regulators must reject the belief that Wall Street knows what's its doing, that its interests are always aligned with the nation as a whole, "The idea that we need Wall Street with its current structure — and a disproportionate economic power that implies — to somehow make this economy work and drive entrepreneurship, that idea is nonsense. This is why we wrote the book, all right? There's plenty of evidence on this issue. We go through it. If you want a faith based economy in this regard, you can disregard the evidence."
Senator Brown and the 'Volcker Rule'
Johnson and Kwak believe Congress should pass a law capping the size of the banks, to keep them from becoming so large that their failure threatens the world economy. This approach has been dubbed the 'Volcker Rule,' after Paul Volcker, the well-respected former Federal Reserve chairman who has pushed hard for its inclusion. Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio has introduced an amendment to the bill that would do just that, reading in part that, "No bank holding company may possess non-deposit liabilities exceeding 3 percent of the annual gross domestic product of the United States."
The Six Big Banks
The names of the six banking behemoths are no doubt familiar to most Americans. The four largest by assets — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup — hold 39 percent of American's deposits.
The six biggest commercial banks by deposit:
* Bank of America, $817.9 billion
* JPMorgan Chase Bank $618.1 billion
* Wachovia Bank $394.2 billion
* Wells Fargo Bank $325.4 billion
* Citibank $265.9 billion
* U.S. Bank $151.9 billion
Source: FDIC
Truncated, for complete article see:
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/profile.html
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
20 April 2010 - 911blogger - Luke Rudkowski
New Video: WeAreChange
Talks to Stephen Colbert
16 April 2010 - PBS - Bill Moyers Journal
Moyers on the Costs of War
Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, NY's Mayor Matt Ryan
and his effort to make manifest the costs of war
to his town and its citizens.
16 April 2010 - PBS - Bill Moyers Journal
Simon Johnson and James Kwak:
Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak,
two of the nation's most respected economic experts and authors
of the new book 13 BANKERS: THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER
AND THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN.
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Christopher Story
18 April 2010
Text of the S.E.C.'s Complaint Against Goldman Sachs
18 April 2010
Definitive Illegality of Securitisation Reconfirmed
It Is illegal to assign without the asset-owner's prior
written permission. All engaged in this racketeering know it.
09 April 2010
CMKM/CMKX $3.87 Trillion Lawsuit Goes 'Mainstream'
You can also access the CMKM/CMKX text at:
www.viewer.zoho.com/docs/paKdda
31 March 2010 - Examiner.com (NY) - Tim Barello
CMKM Diamonds and the $3.87
trillion lawsuit you didn't hear about
"..As the United States continues to fracture in every way imaginable,
most citizens are unable to keep up with the never-ending hodgepodge
of government corruption. Each day, a new larger-than-life scandal emerges,
and in the short mind span of news media, there is always a bigger and better
story to chase. Right now, the hot button issue for mainstream news outlets is
healthcare reform, and its myriad implications for our society; this doubtlessly
ensures the aforementioned media will continue to overlook unprecedented
accusations brought forth in a recent $3.87 trillion lawsuit against U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Shapiro, as well
as several other current and former SEC commissioners, among others.."
16 April 2010 - NYTimes.com -
S.E.C. Accuses Goldman of Fraud in Housing Deal
16 April 2010 - Democracy Now! -
Jailed Whistleblower: US Lawmakers Held Offshore UBS Accounts
17 April 2010 - Yahoo! News
Volcano spews more ash, spawns wider flight chaos
Flyby News archived resource guide:
Energy Emissions Impact On Our Environment
06 April 2010 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
Massacre Caught on Tape:
US Military Confirms Authenticity
of Their Own Chilling Video
Showing Killing of Journalists
Children and innocent civilians harmed!
Collateral Murder
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video
depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people
in a suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
12 April 2010 - Democracy Now! - Josh Stieber
"This Is How These Soldiers Were Trained to Act"
– Veteran of Military Unit Involved in 2007 Shooting
Says Incident Is Part of Much Larger Problem
07 April 2010 - Online Journal - Jerry Mazza
Killing Baghdad civilians
and Reuters journos from the air!
If the statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and
our forefathers could speak, they would scream
in anger at us for this descent into barbarism.
It makes this writer sick to his stomach.
12 April 2010 - Colbert Report - Stephen Colbert
Julian Assange entitled the Apache helicopter video
"Collateral Murder"
to get maximum political impact? Is ignorance bliss?
1,183 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Major Milestone Press Conference
Friday, February 19, 2010
Watch the video here - link with 911blogger
"Government officials will be notified that
'Misprision of Treason,' U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382),
is a serious federal offense, which requires
those with evidence of treason to act..”
- Richard Gage, AIA
04 March 2010 - 911blogger - Gabriel Sukenik
The movement behind 9/11
16 March 2010 - NoLiesRadio - Kevin Barrett
Richard Gage AIA & Jonathan Mark
Update on AE911truth & Misprision of treason campaigns
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9/11 Crime - Misprision - Citizens Action
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A Call for Truth Over Treason
Stop War by exposing the 9/11 Cover-up
09 April 2010 - TimesOnline (UK) - 911blogger
George W. Bush knew
Guantánamo prisoners were innocent!
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to
the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared
that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq.
07 April 2010 - TimesOnline (UK) - CommonDreams
Obama Targets US Citizen for 'Kill or Capture'
13 April 2010 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
Afghans Protest Deadly US Attack on Passenger Bus
Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets of Kandahar
Monday hours after at least five civilians were killed in a US attack.
According to witnesses, US forces opened fire on a passenger bus
just as the bus began pulling over to the side of the road to
allow another military convoy to pass. Another eighteen
civilians were wounded. Protesters burned tires and
blocked a main road leading out of Kandahar. One
protester said the shootings were unprovoked.
Protester:
"The bus carrying civilians was 100 meters away from
the convoy of Americans. Despite that, they opened fire
on the bus. Sixty passengers were traveling on the bus,
six people martyred and eighteen others wounded."
The Kandahar shooting comes as the US is preparing
to launch a major offensive there later this year.
09 April 2010 - PBS - Bill Moyers Journal
Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan
"It is the longest war in American history.
And it is a war for which there is no end in sight..
..it is a war that is utterly devoid of strategic purpose.
Quite frankly, the notion that we can prevent another 9/11
by invading and occupying and transforming countries is absurd."
07 April 2010 - Inter Press Service - CommonDreams
Afghan Official Says US Raiders Hid Killings
29 March 2010 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King
and His Opposition to the Vietnam War
On March 31, 2010 PBS aired Tavis Smiley’s special
MLK: A Call to Conscience
11 March 2010 - Democracy Now!
Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on
"The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration
in the Age of Colorblindness”
Human Rights and A Nation
Behind Bars: the buried
talents of a population.
Transforming Health-care and Criminal Justice
Not-for-Profit Healthcare and Prisons good for USA!
By Jonathan Mark
"We must all learn to live together
as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.
We are tied together in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And
whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. "
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968,
on the day before he was assassinated.
For article by Jonathan Mark on the day after:
FREE AT LAST - day after MLK died
30 March 2010 - Veterans Today - Gordon Duff
Caught In The Act,
Torture, Murder And Rape
Authorized By Bush Administration
24 March 2010 - CounterPunch -
Paul Craig Roberts - Good-Bye.
Truth Has Fallen and Taken
Liberty With It
Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing.
It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being
branded "anti-American," "anti-semite" or "conspiracy theorist."
Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School
The School for Torturers
BY
Professor Francis A. Boyle
Spring, 2010 - VIDEO - ae911truth
Ed Asner for 9/11 Truth
Ed Asner is supporting Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
and the voice of AE911Truth's radio campaign. AE911truth.org
is pleased to announce that Asner's 30 second spot has aired
nationwide on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory as well
as on Progressive Talk radio station KTLK in Los Angeles
the week of 3/15. But this is just the beginning. With
your help, we can take this thing national. And with
a spokesman like Asner, people will listen.
Clear Channel has allowed the spots to air
without even blinking. To take the Asner
campaign to the next step, please
contribute! ae911truth.org
Read their latest newsletter!
A Call for Truth Over Treason
Stop War by exposing the 9/11 Cover-up
"To open ourselves to the truth and to bring ourselves face to face
with our personal and collective reality is not an option that can be
accepted or rejected. It is an undeniable requirement of all people
and all societies that seek to humanize themselves and to be free.."
-- Guatemalan Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera
Assassinated April 25, 1998, one day after his speech (and above quote),
when he presented his findings of an in-depth probe into a campaign of
terror against the people of Guatemala waged by their own government.
28 March 2010 - VIDEO - 911blogger
9-11 Truth makes HUGE appearance
at Los Angeles Anti-War March
RECLAIMING AMERICA
Paranoid Shift
Special article by Michael Hasty
&
Special Film by John Hankey
Dark Legacy
George Bush and the Assassination of JFK
25 March 2010 - Taki Magazine - Information Clearinghouse
Covering up American War Crimes,
From Baghdad to New York
The US government does not want it known
that it was using chemicals on human beings
in a country whose leader it overthrew ostensibly
because he retained the capacity to do the same thing.
24 June 2006 - VIDEO - John McMurtry
Why The Facts Of 9/11 Are Suppressed
17 March 2010 - Raw Story - 911blogger
Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld
warned 9/11 Commission about
'line' it 'should not cross'
21 March 2010 - Washington Post - 911blogger
FBI false flag terror
plot exposed in court
16 March 2010 - William Veale, Esq. - 911blogger
April Gallop's case on 9/11-Pentagon thrown out!
Judge Chin has just dismissed the Gallop case.
He said that the allegations are frivolous and
based on fantasy and delusion.
Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler
Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post's no-
conspiracy-theory policy, and he's not happy about it.
12 March 2010 - Raw Story - Video (RT) - 911blogger
Jesse Ventura:
'You're not allowed to ask' about 9/11
24 March 2010 - CounterPunch - 911blogger
Paul Craig Roberts - Good-Bye.
Truth Has Fallen and Taken
Liberty With It
Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing.
It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being
branded "anti-American," "anti-semite" or "conspiracy theorist."
25 February 2010 - OpedNews - 911blogger
The Road to Armageddon
By Paul Craig Roberts
22 February 2010 - Washington Times - Jennifer Harper
EXPLOSIVE NEWS
3 Misprision of Treason proposals to consider
16 March 2010 - NoLiesRadio - Kevin Barrett
Richard Gage AIA & Jonathan Mark
Update on AE911truth & Misprision of treason campaigns
Truth Jihad Radio - 13 February 2010 - Misprision of Treason
Richard Gage, AIA and Jonathan Mark
Interview by Kevin Barrett - 2nd hour - Dr. Leonard Horowitz
On staying healthy in a false-flag terrorized world.
Listen here or link from Archives ~ Truth Jihad Radio
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,
Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False
By David Ray Griffin
For an audio of Dr. Griffin presenting about this book:
Guns and Butter- The Mysterious Collapse of WTC-7
For a review of this book by Jerry Mazza:
"Just Say No to Nist.."
War in Space & 9/11
Jonathan Mark on Fair & Balanced
Kevin Barrett - August 11, 2009 - NoLiesRadio
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to democracy or to genocide
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
P e r s p e c t i v e - R e s o u r c e s - A r c h i v e s
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